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Date of upload: Nov 27, 2022 ^^
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31:30 as an African American Greek Orthodox who marched in the Greek Independence parade, I was thrilled to learn there was one who took up arms for our Hellenic brethren!
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According to the primary sources the Byzantines/Medieval Greeks used for themselves the names: Έλληνες/Hellenes (Greeks), Γραικοί/Graikoi (Greeks), Ραικοί/Raikoi (Greeks), Ελλαδικοί/Helladikoi (Greeks), Ρωμαίοι/Rhomaioi (Romans) (an ethnonym that derives from the fact that medieval Greeks had Roman citizenship and had taken under their control the Roman state during the byzantine period) and Ρωμέλληνες/Rhomellenes (Roman Greeks) .
Greeks during the ottoman period used the names: Έλληνες/Hellenes (Greeks), Graikoi/Γραικοί (Greeks) and Ρωμιοί/Rhomioi (Romans). These are the names that are used by Greeks today as well. All of these names are used as synonyms and mean "Greek" in the Greek language. Including the term "Ρωμιός" that is used with the definition that the byzantine Greeks were using it and not as an identity separate from the greek one.
Based on the greek sources (both from the byzantine and ottoman period) Greeks never stopped identifying as Greeks and never stopped considering ancient Greek their ancestors. So where exactly are you basing your claim that the concept of greek or hellenic identity had not existed for centuries and for early modern Greek-speakers the heroes of Homer were mystical giants and not their direct ancestors? I have seen only one source where someone was calling ancient Greeks "giants" and that was as a praise, not because he didn't consider him his ancestors.
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I want to personally thank you for your time and research into the Greek Revolution. I am aware of the considerable time and effort it takes to complete this documentary. I have searched to find a video on the revolution and found a partial one in Greek. I don't speak Greek so it was useless to me. I enjoy your documentary's because they are thouough and the explanation of the battle scenarios are brilliant. Thank you, I enjoyed this installment as I have the others. Keep up the good work. Please, don't let it drive you to illicit vice. Just a little friendly advice.
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I’m sure just the name “Athens” sent a shiver down many spines. Very few cities in the world have such a gigantic reputation
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nice documentary. Its also worthy to take a look to the bios of the protagonists of revolution. For example The Heroine Manto Mavrogenous. She donated whole vast family fortune to the revolution. She fought personally ,she got betrayed by the politicians, her home was burned by politician bouncers and she died at 44 years old ,very poor ,in the house of another co-fighter living as guest. Before she die she went to the government to ask for a tiny pension of veteran. The public servant asked her "what have you done for Greece and ask pension? and she said "What I Manto Mavrogenous have done for Greece? I did NOTHING" and she left.
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Remarkable work !
Detailed and accurate explained !
As a Greek I feel touched and your approach was excellent.
Also I would like to add that all the help from the volunteers didn't end well as the free Hellenic nation started directly civil war and the soldiers that came for aid Hellas were in the middle of a conflict that they didn't want to participate, and soon ended their life's cause of the mess between the Hellenes.
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1 year ago
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